(avant-garde, electronic) George Russell - Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature - 1968 - 1985, APE (tracks+.cue), lossless

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George Russell / Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature
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The essential concepts which inspired the creation of the "Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature" lay in a philosophical and socio/musical areas. It's socio/musical objective was to create a pan-stylistic electronic tape; a tape composed of fragments of many differrent styles of music, avant-garde jazz, ragas, blues, rock serial music etc., treted electronically. And to have this tape serve as a palate upon which non-electronic musical statements of a pan-stiylistic nature could be projected. The wedding of non-electronic pan-stylism was meant to convey the cultural implosion occuring among the earth's population, thei coming together. Also it is meant to suggest that man, in the face of encroaching technology, must confront technology and attempt to humanize it: using it to enrich his collective soul... not only his purse... to explore inner, as well as outer space.
The philosophical concept which the title itself suggests is based upon a casual remark made by Turid Aarstad, a friend, who stated the following: "Nature likes those who give into her but she loves those who do not". It suggests that a human soul will come under a special cosmic law when it is willing to devote itself, without compromise to the elevation of man. It implies that though mature might seem to resist the efforts of the soul who will not bend or give in short of its goal, nature is perhaps only testing the truth of a soul's belief in itself, its belief in its essence. It suggests that nature will reward a dedication to one's essence in some special way, especially when one's essence is in consonance and in tune with the part of nature having to do with the spiritual enrichment of man.
The voices on the Electronic Sonata are of a 70-year-old African and his two sons. An African lute is being used. It was recorded by American film maker Carl Floyd in february 1967 in Nile headquarters region of North Uganda while Mr. Floyd was on a relief mission for UNICEF. The recordings are used with Mr. Floyd's kind permission.- George Russell -